Twine-holder



UNITED STATES f PATENT OFFICE.

WELLAR ZA.. TIDBAIL, OE INDEPENDENCE, AND WILLIAM B. VON STEIN, OF FORT DODGE, IOWA.

TwlNE-HoLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,206, dated April 30, 1889.

Serial No. 287,688. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WELLAR A. TIDBALL residing at Independence, in the county of Buchanan and State of Iowa, and WILLIAM B. VON STEIN, residing at Fort Dodge, in the county of W ebster' and State of Iowa, citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in lwine-Holders, of which the following is a specification.`

Our invention relates to an improvement in twine-holders; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim,

The object of our invent-ion` is to provide a twine-holder which is neat and attractive in appearance and may be easily and cheaply manufactured; and a furtherobject of our invention is to provide a device by which the slack in the free end of the twine or cord will be automatically taken up. l

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of our improved twineholder, showing4 the movable weight in the lowered position; and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same with themovable weight in the raised position.

A represents a semi-spherical basket or holder, which is .made of sheet metal, or of other preferred material, and comprises a circular ring, B, and a bottom or spider, O, havinga series of integral radial arms, D, which are curved upward and have their upper ends soldered or. otherwise secured to theinner side of the ring B.

The said spider or bottom, with its radial arms, is' adapted to be stamped from a single piece of sheet metal, and therefore the basket or holder may be manufactured at a very low cost.

Secured to one side of the ring B is awire, E, which has one end bent to form a horizontally-arranged open eye or loop, F, and has its opposite end bent to form a vertical eye or loop, G, which has its lower side open.

H representsa vertical open loop or frame, which is formed of a single piece of Wire and comprises the vertical parallel sides I, the open loops or eyes K at the upper ends of the said sides, the connecting portion L, between the upper ends of the said Vertical. 5o sides, and having the eye orI loop M, by means of which the device may be suspended from a nail or peg. The lower ends of the arms I are bent inward at right angles to form hooks N, which are adapted to be inserted in the ends of a tubular loop, O, which is formed from a single circular piece of sheet metal, and is soldered on the ring B, at the rear side thereof. The open loops or eyes K form spring-coils, which keep the hooks N nor- 6o mally in engagement with the tubular keeper O, as will be readily understood.

I represents a vertical guide-wire, which has its lower end secured in the center of the keeper O, and has its upper end soldered in 6 5 the lower portion of the loop M, and closing the latter. On this guide-wire is arrangeda weight, R, of suitable size and gravity. The said weight has on its upper side a wire loop orbail, S, in which is formed a pair of open 7o eyes or loops, T.

The operation of our invention is as follows: A ball of cord is placed in the basket or holder A and the end thereof is engaged with theY open loop or eye F, and passed through the open loop or keeper G, then passes upward and is engaged with one of the open loops or eyes K, is then passed downward and strung through the open eyes T of the bail S, and then passes upward through` 8o the retaining open loop or eye K, from which the free end of the cord depends. When the cord is drawn from the ball in order to wrap a parcel or for any other purpose, the weight R is first moved to the upper end of the guide-wired), as will be readily understood, and when the outer end of the cord is cut oif the weight in descendingforms two loops, b, in the cord, and thereby takes up the slack.

Having thus described our invention, we 9o claim* l The twine-holder comprising the receptacle having the wire E with eyes F G, the keeper O, secured to one edge of the receptacle, the frame H, made of a single piece of wire bent to form the eyes or loops K, and

the vertical ar1ns I, the latter' having the hooks In testimony that we claim the foregoing as N at their lower ends inserted in keeper O, our own We have hereto axed our signatures 1o the vertical guide P, having its lower end sein presence of two Witnesses.

eured to the keeper and its upper end secured 1 5 between the upper ends of arms I, and the Weight R, movable on said vertical guide and J A having the bail S, with eyes T, adapted to en- Witnesses: gage a cord or twine strung through the loops A. G. BEATTY,

or eyes F, G, and K, substantially as described. ED. HUNT. 

